Shape 5 Text Ticker
Version
1.0 (last update on Aug 2, 2008)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
21
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
2 August 2008
Features:
* Powered by S5 Effects so you will experience no script conflictions
* Up to ten lines of text
* HTML can be used too
* Set display time
* Set rotation speed * XHTML Valid
I was looking for such little thing. I am using shape_5 vertex template, so... for the second time - shape_5 proved they can made very good product. News tickers may be used as its name suggest: you can put up to ten links (HTML code) into this module and publish it whenever you want (tanks god - vertex template have plenty of positions:) This module looks very good, and is very easy to configure. In a very small surface you can have 10 titles of your selected news. God job! P.S. I don't really understand some previous negative comments... In my opinion these people can't read the description of this module / or they can't add a link to this module :) For me - everything works fine.
This extension is OK but you can't put html code in the module on a 1.7 site. Questions about this issue have gone unanswered in the support forums. Also if you only have 1 line of text, the second line will be filled in automatically with the developers info... even if you try to delete it. (have to modify the xml as a workaround;) Mootools version doesn't seem to work either. Could be an excellent extension if everything worked or was at least trying to be fixed.
If you don't care to use code then this is a great text display.
If you don't care to use code then this is a great text display.
I spent half a day trying to get traditional news tickers to show line of text from articles inserting the module into a third module. All fail at that position on my template. Therefore I turned to look for TEXT SCROLLING, finding S5 Text Ticker.
The fact that you can insert inline CSS style and HTML took me to achieve more than what I originally needed.
It would be fantastic if the developers can upgrade this mod to be capable of playing more than one instance of the module on the same article.
Thanks.
The fact that you can insert inline CSS style and HTML took me to achieve more than what I originally needed.
It would be fantastic if the developers can upgrade this mod to be capable of playing more than one instance of the module on the same article.
Thanks.
The title is very misleading and this module is in the wrong section of the extension listing if you ask me.
It doesn't display news it displays manually typed in text.
Rename it to Text Ticker and then this module will do what it says.
Might be useful for some other applications but not for news display.
The fade effect is a bit on the "not so good" side too. It fades in nicely to a point but when it switches to the next section it pops up without an effect. So you get a fade out -pop in effect instead of a more stylish fade in - fade out.
If you have an image to display this way it's a bit of an eye sore.
It doesn't display news it displays manually typed in text.
Rename it to Text Ticker and then this module will do what it says.
Might be useful for some other applications but not for news display.
The fade effect is a bit on the "not so good" side too. It fades in nicely to a point but when it switches to the next section it pops up without an effect. So you get a fade out -pop in effect instead of a more stylish fade in - fade out.
If you have an image to display this way it's a bit of an eye sore.
This fits a gap if you want to link easily to non-content links. so here you can link to components, externlinking, etc. you can style easily since html is accepted. No creation of an article needed to link - beautiful.
This certainly is something most of the other tickers lack, even better its from a trusted source like shap5.
Thanks guys, this is what i was looking for after discovering that other tickers do not fill this need.
This certainly is something most of the other tickers lack, even better its from a trusted source like shap5.
Thanks guys, this is what i was looking for after discovering that other tickers do not fill this need.
It did just want I wanted. I was able to input custom messages to keep my customers informed of important events. So much nicer than a 1970's style ticker tape display.
One extra thing I would like to see would be the ability to customise the text, i.e. font, style and colour on a line by line basis but even without that it is great!
One extra thing I would like to see would be the ability to customise the text, i.e. font, style and colour on a line by line basis but even without that it is great!
This mod is not for you if your looking for one to advertise your content...
I needed a way to display -MY- messages. It is perfect for that. You get 10 separate messages to roll through, can adjust the speed between fades, the length of time before switching messages, can use html in the messages, can choose which position it shows in... This is great for the hands on web-op who has a need to change / send specific messages.
For the creative, you can use this to have 10 fading/rotating ads in a module, and all you need to know is the html language to put in the areas.
Sweet mod. Thanks a ton.
I needed a way to display -MY- messages. It is perfect for that. You get 10 separate messages to roll through, can adjust the speed between fades, the length of time before switching messages, can use html in the messages, can choose which position it shows in... This is great for the hands on web-op who has a need to change / send specific messages.
For the creative, you can use this to have 10 fading/rotating ads in a module, and all you need to know is the html language to put in the areas.
Sweet mod. Thanks a ton.
This module does exactly as described.
To the review of mike123acc I have to say that he obviously expected this module to be something it isn't and as such his review is incorrect, he should have read the description before writing it.
Rudolfe was obviously looking for a similar product as mike123acc but understood this wasn't what he needed.
What I could use as an extra is a component interface where i can enter the parameters and lines of text so it is easier for managers to change the data. For now this module will do for me.
To the review of mike123acc I have to say that he obviously expected this module to be something it isn't and as such his review is incorrect, he should have read the description before writing it.
Rudolfe was obviously looking for a similar product as mike123acc but understood this wasn't what he needed.
What I could use as an extra is a component interface where i can enter the parameters and lines of text so it is easier for managers to change the data. For now this module will do for me.
Don't waste time downloading and testing this unless you are happy manually entering the content it displays. It is not a News module in the Joomla sense. It does not use your existing content or articles. I wasted 5 minutes with this, maybe you won't have to.
This module only scrolls up to 10 items of text that you have to manually enter. It does not scroll article contents based on sections or categories. Why that is, I have no idea. The scrolling itself works beautifully, just wish it took it's content from my article database.
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